Over the years I have donated thousands of dollars to all kinds of groups to help raise money. I am on some kind of list because I get tons of solicitations each day. Donor fatigue has set in. There is so much need and we can only give so much. The problem with fund raising is that the person who gives doesn't get anything of value back other than a feeling of doing the right thing but for most people it isn't enough.
The Federal tax laws prohibit non profits from exchanging anything of value in exchange for donations. But I have discovered a way that gets around donor fatigue and the above mentioned federal prohibition.
Since law school when I read the horror stories of what happens to kids when their parents die without a will, I have been a fiend on parents of minors having wills (saying who the guardians should be should the parents die) and given that 7 out of 10 people don't have wills this seems pretty important to talk about. Look at the incredible mess due to Anna Nicole Smith not having a will. I don't have children but I love my 3 French Bulldogs like my own babies. So I was really excited to find information about a legal insurance plan that gives its members a free will just for trying their month to month service. In fact as a fund raising idea for any non profit who wants to make money all they have to do is pay a one time $49 fee to get involved and then $20 a month for the ability to take sign ups on the website they give you so that you can sell the membership plan or identity theft shield and have all the commissions deposited as earned (daily, weekly, how ever often people buy) directly into the bank account of a member of the non profit organization. The receiver then donates all the money earned to the non profit and takes the write off on their taxes, up to 50% of their adjusted gross income.
For each $26 a month legal plan that is bundled with the $9.95 a month ID Theft Shield the non profit would get a commission of $34.57 . If you can do that 5 times in your first 45 days you get a jump up to $103.70 per sale. So for the first 15 people/couples who get this, your group would get $1,210. EVERYONE needs the ID Theft Shield and if that is all they want it costs $12.95 a month and the non profit would get $12.45 after they sold the first 5 and then $37.36 for each one after that. Once the members see how well their own plans work they will tell their friends who can buy them online from the non profit's own site that they are given by the company and you just keep making money and putting a really good product into the hands of people who need it.
When I was introduced to the products I was so impressed I bought it for myself and I am a lawyer with all kinds of friends who are lawyers to help me if I needed it and I still wanted this. Go to the website below to see what I mean. If you see the value I do, you can bring it to your board and move forward on this. My suggestion would be to let all your supporters know that you are partnering with the organization offering these great products as a way of raising money but also to offer a terrific product to the friends of the group. The more people you can drive to your site, the more money you will raise. If you wanted to make even more money from over rides (because this is an insurance product and you can be the broker to other agents) you could sign up other entities that wanted to raise money the same way. This is the most brilliant idea I have ever seen for making money while providing a really important service. Please contact me if you want to do this so I can help get you started. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
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